EL SALVADOR: Twenty Years of Peace Fail to Bring Prosperity
Two decades after the signing of the Peace Accords, together with the social commitments they contained, El Salvador's levels of poverty and violence are so high that academic and social leaders are proposing new accords to overcome the crisis.
PARAGUAYAN PEOPLE’S ARMY
A small guerrilla group in Paraguay has become a headache for the government. Nick Caistor, from LAB, looks at the return of 'foquismo'. Nick Caistor, from LAB, reports
South America: an emerging military power
In an increasingly insecure global climate, UNASUR plans to invest billions of dollars in defence. Brazil alone is to acquire 20 conventional and 6 nuclear submarines by 2023. Raúl Zibechi examines the issue.
Costa Rica’s Peaceful Reputation At Risk From Cartels
Drugs have cast a dark shadow over one of the most peaceful countries in Latin America.
Beyond Relief, Beyond Belief
The London-based Haiti Support Group says that the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission has been a failure and welcomes the end of its activities.
Haiti: The slow road to reconstruction
Two years after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, Oxfam believes that the government has not done enough to meet the needs of the victims.
Apuntes sobre las elecciones en el Caribe Norte
In this article (in Spanish), the author visits a region that two decades ago was at the centre of the fight between the Reagan-sponsored contras and the Sandinistas, and finds that the Miskito indians have not experienced much progress.
Trials and Tenacity in Honduran Women’s Struggle for Land Rights
Despite being denied time and again title to the land they farm, a group of women from El Estribo is not giving up.
Cochabamba strategy meeting seeks new agenda
Bolivian social movements and other representative organisations met in mid-December to discuss policies for the next phase of the MAS government. The Bolivian Information Forum gives its analysis.
Paraguay to hand over indigenous land
Justice at last for Paraguayan indigenous community.